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fEB 4 1915 



"LAND 0' THE LEAL" 






Home of Roosevelt's Ancestors in Bucks 



The Story of a Sturdy People. Little Colony of Ulster Scots who 
were Prominent for their Piety and Courage. Sketch of the 
Home Life of a Self-Reliant Race. 



The fact that the foremost citizen of 
America, Theodore Roosevelt, Presiden' 
_of tile Un'ted States, sprans? from Buck 
county ancestry, lends at this time addi- 
tional interest to the history of his pro- 
genitors and their v.-ontemporaries. our 
early Scotch-Irish settlers. Histor-. has 
touched lightly upon the home life of the 
little colony of Ulster .Scots, who settled 
on the banks of the Neshaminy in the 
townships of Warwick, Warr ingion 
and Sew Britain, but these people wnr^ 
none the less worthy of a prominent 
place in the records of the past. Driven 
by religious persecution from their native 
highlands in the Seventeenth century, the 
remnants nf many a noble clan sought 
temporary ri-f uge in the province of Ulster, 
Irleand, from whence, between the years 
17S0 and 1740, thousand of them migrated 
to America and peopled the hills and val- 
leys of Pennsylvania's frontier witn a 
sturdy rugged race that was destined to 
play an important part in the formation 
of our national character. 

Clannish by nature and tradition, they 
.clung together in small coranmnilies of 
'two score or more families, a majority of 
j them related by ties of blood or marriage. 
I They took up the unsettled portions of 
\he new province. Accustomed for gen- 
fc'ations to the rugged mountain sides of 
Aieir native land, the roughness of the 
new territory did not discourage them. 
Ifl foot the steep hillsides on the banks of 
our riVers and smaller streams, shunned 
or neglected by the earlier English set- 
tlers, seem to have had an especial attrac- 
tion for them. Thus we ttnd the two 
I most considerable settlements of Scotch- 
/ Irish in onr onrn oo*;j:frj', fc.'ie otie on tile 
banks of the Neshaminy in Warwick, 
Warrington and New Britain, and the 
other along the Tohickon in Tinicum. 
I There were several distinct trends of 
iiiigration in the settlement of our county. 
The English Quaker element, welliiig 
up from the Falls and Middletown in the 
closing years of the Seveneenth and the 
beginning of the Eighteenth century, 
kept to the east of the Neshaminy, up 
through Wrightstown and the Makeflekls, 
into Buckingham and Solebury and over- 
flowed into Plumstead, while the Dutch 
settlement in North and Southampton 
expanded into the lower half of War- 
minster, and the Germans and Welsh 
Baptists worked their way over our 
borders from the westward, through the 
upper half of New Britain, Hilltown and 
the territory farther north. The greater 
part of Warrington, Warwick and New 
Britain was owned during the first 
quarter of the century by non-resident 
land spectulators L-ather than by actual 
Bettlers. 

To this section, between 1720 and 1740, 



came two score or more families frcji 
the Province of Ulster. The Lungs, 
Griers, Jamesons.Kerrs. Millera,.Stewarts, 
Finleys, Darrochs, Walkers, Wallaces, 
Grays, Craigs. Creightons, Polks, Bar- 
clays, Weirs, Hairs, Barnhills and a score 
of others all more or less onnected by 
ties of consanguinity or marriage. The 
Jamesons. Longs, Polks, Breadys, Mearns, 
Brackenridges and Millers purchased 
large tracts in the lower end of Wanine- 
ton and Warwick between 1720 and 1730. 
Just north of rhese tracts, and lying be- 
tween the Bristol and Street roads, was a 
tract, of neirlv 2000 acres, patented to 
William .\llen"in 1730 The whole of this 
tract was taken up by Scotch Irish 
families prior to 1740, as well 'as the strip 
of land lying between it and the County 
line and large tracts in New Britain and 
Warwick. 

Upon these various tracts, comprisine a 
compact area of probably 10 000 acres, was 
established a community as unique as it 
w.as interesting. Looked upon with 
suspicion, regarded as little better than 
barbarians by their Quaker neighbors on 
the east, and having little intercourse 
with the Germans on the north by reason 
of alien customs and language and hav- 
ing within its borders, all the necessities 
of a primitive life, owing to the diver- 
sity of trade and calling of its indivdual 
members, this community became suffi- 
cient unto itself. 

Here were transplanted and cherished, 
so nearly as their primitive enrivonment 
would permit, the customs of their native 
land. The quaint dialect of the Scotch 
yeomanry was used for gener?i^it!»s Ho 
Isolated were they in a sense, and so 
tenaciously did they cling to the mother 
tongue, that many of their descendants 
now living, can. recall the "dinna ye 
ken" and like expressions of their grand- 
parents, to whom they were always the 
"byes and lasses" Also tenacious in 
their peculiar religious views, those of 
the Presbyterian Kirk, of Scotland, one 
of their first concerns was the establish- 
ment of a Kirk of their own, which sur- 
vives today in the Neshaminy Church of 
Warwick, built in 1727. 

Possessed of a. character as stern and 
uncompromising as the granite of their 
native mountains, this little colony did 
not concern itself in the affairs of its neigh- 
bors. Indeed there was no occasion to do 
so. They had brought with them the 
things they needed, and had inherent In 
their nature that which made them a 
people separate and apart from the com- 
munities by which they were surrounded. 
In their lives and characters was a decla- 
ration of independence in itself, that 
nourished the spirit of freedom, which 
■was to carry these people into the thick of 



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th<- fl(;ht whi'n the time arrlvi>d to bid 
dHfliincv to thf- iMolhiT country This 
Bpirlt WHS ftirthfr iiiiKint-ni^^ bv (heir In- 
de(i»-n»!»*nce nnd n*Mnini"* in x\\** liewiop- 
nient <if the nuit<rlal iitTiiini iif the colony. 
At* prevll*Mi8ly htjit«*<l. then* weiv uniitnt; 
the Unit sett'ers men of every tnuie iin<l 
Cllllin|!clllculttte<l to iniilce the uoluny («elf- 
flustnininK There were hiiNbniidnien. 
wenverfi, 8milhH, mii.*i(mH, joinen*. coni- 
walner«, millerii iintl inuleKmen. wboM< 
Industry and thrift nmde it po«><ible for 
the m'hiMjlmMKt4*r and iirejicher to devote 
hlmn-lf fxrlimively to the intelleftiml nnd 
spirllunl needs of ihe community. But 
with true Scotch economy, the teiicher 
and preacher wen* of len one and tiie same. 
Ah an iliuhirallun may U- cited the 
fnundlUK of I'l-nnenlH fami)U« Lop Col- 
lece 118 an luljunct to the Nerhuminy 
Cniiroh of which he wa« pastor 

The stlmuluH given to civil and re- 
llplouM freedom by the Uiiinfrrupt<-<1 ex- 
ercise of these llliertles. in Ktrnnp con- 
trast to the repn-sslon and jierst-ciitlon In 
the old country, tviiinot *>•• ov»*restiiiiat**d. 
Prlnivt-on. as well an like Inhtitutiona 
vlvewherv. hiul lc« lnu*-piU>ii in ort own 
Ixii; C"oll.-(.'.-.and Finley. it.s llri-t l^rwsident 
was akin to tbo8e of thi* tsime nunie In 
Warrington 

The soUH of Huck8 county's sturdy 
pionet-rH were constrfintly pushing on 1»'- 
Toiid uur frontiers, cjirrylng with ihem 
the lessons of fnignlity, piety and Inde- 
pendence. learn>*<l in this primitive c«>m- 
Miunliy Th>-> foruH-d new colonies and 
engenden*<l iheri'ln ihe love of fre.-doin. 
which, whi-n ttie Itevolution.iry war 
broke out, ejislly maile t h«* ."^c*iich- Irish 
element the dominint pirly In the siruu- 
(rle for national lnde|>i'ndenc>- In our Suite 
And lntiej*'nttenci' aci-oiuplishtHl they re- 
lurneil to their homes nuil again took up 
the liuslm 8.S of self uuvrmmeht. ijnmdened 
nnd reflni-U by cont^tcl with the outside 
World — the primitive characteristics of 
Ihelr early life goa. — but n-taining the 
liule|>en(lim'v and courage of their for 
bears which hail develo|»'<l In them the 
bst elements of cIti/eiishlD. 

li may not lie amiss hen- to irlve some 
di'liiiiled aciiiunt of a tew of the leading 
families of ilie Hinks i-ounty colony and 
thepiao-sof their alxxle a century and a 
half ago. 

Among the most prominent were the 
Craigs, ance»lors of Pn-sldent Itooseveit. 
This famillv comprised four brothers, 
Thomas. Daniel, James and William, and 
Bt least four sisters and their hiislmnds 
Of Ihesi- I homas and Daniel Craig and 
Iiich;ini Walker anti John liray, (who 
had niaTliil ."^arah and Margart Criilg, 
lVlHK-;ttv.-ly IrJfJi ttioU v-v 'v»»'i in W'»»-»-linj. 
Ion though 'i'homns ("ralg pnihably never 
lived thi-re but r>-nu)v<d with his brothers 
and brothers In law to Allen township 
and founded what was lung known as 
■•Iralgs," or Ihe "Irish .■^fttliinent, " 
near Haih, In what became Northampton 
coiinty In ITrtJ 

The tnict« taken up by Ihe Craig bnitb- 
ers and that of .Inhn tiray adjolne<l each 
olher.all tif them almiilng on the Hri-tol 
l{«iad Thjit of tirav. purchns<'<i In thn-)- 
s*»iianite tnicts aggregating X.l^'i a<T»*s.coiii- 
iirl^-»l on the lowi r s.iuiheast ii>rner the 
slie of "'Iraig's TaM-rn" now Warring- 
(onvllle Daniel t'nilgs 'J.'iu acn- tnicl lay 
next above that of liray, and Thomas 
Craig's pun-has<' »t 'JlL' airi'S adj<ilne I his 
brotlitTs <iii the norihwe-l. while Ihe 
■J'lii aej>-s of Kli-hard Walker lay along 
what was then the New lirlialn line. th« 
ITri m-n- tract o William Cr<-lghton intt-r- 
veiilMg l»*tw<fn it and thai of Thoiiuui 
Cnilg Tha tnicl taken up by John 
Itapl.iy. till' emigraiii aiu"<-stor of Ihe 
llanlajsof Ducks county, lay t<i the west 
of Walker and Cn-lghton and Inclinlt-u 
ihe faim now oivupli'd by KM L. Ciymer. 



As before stated. Thomas Cnilg, Sr . rv- 
move<l to .\llen township, and In lT5!i 
conveyed his Warrington farm to Janiea 
Ilarclay. who hiid married his nelce. Mar- 
jnin"t, the daughter of Daiil<-I Craig 
This tnict coniprls«-d the pr»-s.iit farm of 
John B. Walter and extende<i ii.irihwnrd 
to the public road running ihnnigh the 
<;e<jrge tiarni-r farm. The Daniel Craig 
farm comprisejl the present farms of 
Charles Cadwallnder. Joel Ilaldeman and 
J. K. Palterson. The homestettd was lo- 
cateil on Kllxiw Ijine. the present home 
of Joel Haldeman This was the birth 
place of .~arah <.'ralg, the grvnt-grent- 
grandmolher of President l{<H>seveli. 

Ihesi- thn-e men. Ki<'har<i Walker. John 
(iray and Daniel Craig, wen- among the 
most priiminent of the pioni-<-rs of the 
.s^cotch Irish settlement. .-Ml were trus- 
te«-s and elders of Neshamlny church. 
Ulchanl Walker was prolvibly the most 
promlnini, and enjuyed more civic honors 
tluin any one of his naclonailly In Bucks 
county. He was a memtier of I'rovln- 
rlil .Vss.-mblv fmui 1717 lo 17tiil. Justice of 
the Pi-.iiv and of the s'-veml courts of 
Buck^ oone-y fnm 17!H t«> I???., n:.^ ^n*- 
commlsslo xt a captain in the provincial 
s-Tvli-e February V>. \'W He die«l April 
11. I7yl lived KM years His w'fe. .Sirah 
Craig. dl.-d April' 2, 17S4 ageil 7x years. 
John Gray was o true dl-i-lple of John 
Knox. He was oneof the lirst lrusi«vs of 
the "New LiL-hts" of the Sehhamlny 
Church after the H<-paniilon in 1741. and 
was one of the most active in the propo- 
gallon of Ihe (ios|Kd "aivonlliiif to the 
riles and usagesof the Pri-sbvteri.iii Kirk 
of .-;c«.tland." He dii-d .-Vpril --'7. 17t«, 
aged r>7 yeiirs By will d il>-<t twod.iys prior 
to hi-' death, he' <levis..s \h iiimnds'to his . 
niei-e. S.inih Cr.iie. "& if she marry with 
the >sinsi-n> of her iiart-nts & her .\uiit 
Margan*t, with whom sin- now livi^s. I do 
bei|iieith to her live pounds iiion". " After 
milking small l>H|Ue>ts to cousins in Ire- 
land and els<-when' he devis<-s all the bil- 
nno- of his estate ^> his wife Margiovi for 
life, whi-u one half of it is to go to <he 
uw of Si-haminy church so long -is 
Charles B<Mtty is its pastor and the other 
half Is to b«' li'evoti')! t«> thi- pn-panition of 
souths for the ministry. He entirel;. 
igiiori'd his two sims John anil Jiuites, 
who had bi^xime pioni^'rs in the valley of 
the Juniata, whence the former r»'tiir "d 
to the home of his luothiT In Warriigt- 
ton to die in 17.MI after his wife n'«i cli/d 
hml bei-n carried Into wiptivity by tie 
Indians. 

Daniel Cmlg lived to an lulvancj-d iiije 
and dl«l one month l»-fori' the De»'l« ii- 
ti'in of Inilfptmileni^-. Iui\ing lus-n lotallf 
blind for si-veral years. His widow Mar- 
gari't and eight rhlirtri-n surrivwU him. 
His sons Thomas and John were among 
the most prominent in thedefemv of 
Kheir itiuntry in the war of the |{«'Volu- 
llon. Thomas was coiiiiiiissioni'd a Cap- 
tain Oclobi-r 2:1. 1771). and <-.iiiimanded a 
coiiutny In Col. Williaiu Baxter's Hegl- 
nient ot the " Klvin^l^aini)" In th<' bat- 
tle of Forth WashingUm. Nov. 177tl. His 
o-rtillcnte of the il.ath of Col. Baxter In 
this Ivillle is .,n lile in the tirplmns' 
couit olllc*' of Bucks county in «>nn.-ction 
with the widow Baxter's aiiplicjiilon for 
"half Iniy. ' He M-rveil through the en- 
tln- wai- and at its close was Cummis 
sloner of Pun-ha.s«-s for the army with Ihe 
rank of Colonel His itaislns, Thomas 
and John Cmlg, of .Northam|>ton. wen- 
al»> among the moat prominent of I'enn- 
gylvanla's soldiers in Ihe Id-volution, the 
former r»'tlring with the rank of (ienernl. 
The other children of Daniel Cmlg w.-re 
William. evidenlly a "ne'.rdo w.-ll " ix-n- 
Bion.-<l by his father, an ! five rlaiighters, 
Margana. wife of Jn >. l«fore 

n-fernd t«i; Sarah, v i Barn- 

hill; Jane, wife of .... .rnhill 



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the property of his descendants for 100 
years and much of It for nearly half a 
century later. Richard Hough died in 1706 
and by will dated May 1, 1704, devised the 
whole tract to his son, Joseph Hough who 
settled thereon and became a very promi- 
nent man in the community. On 
January 10, 1761 Joseph Hough and ^iizsi- 
beth his wife, conveyed the above men- 
tioned tract in about equal tracts to his 
sons Joseph Jr., and John Hough, re- 
spectively, the division line running a 
northwest course directly across the tract 
seviral perches southwest of the Nesham- 
iny, the southwestern end going to Joseph 
Hough and the northeastern end contain- 
ing about 150 acres, to John Hough. It 
was on the last-mentioned tract that the 
ancient mill was erected. It stood directly 
on the southwest bank of the Neshaniiny, 
near the late residence of Thomas Fr s, 
about one mile northwest of the alms- 
house, on land nowt- 3 property of Charles 
B. Krause, of Uoyle^'own. Not the least 
remnant of the walls of the old mill pre 
now visible on the surface of the ground, 

clearly indicates that the mill was built 
against the steep sloping bank of the creek 
so that the second stor was easily entered 
from the surface of tlie lane which led to 
it down the bank of the Neshaniiny and 
a remnant of the road which led around 
to the mill to give access to the lower 
story is still plainly visible as is also the 
ancient tail race.running almost in north- 
easterly direction to the Neslhaminy at a 
point diectly opposite the buildings on the 
present Krause farm. This tail race is 
still mentioned, in the deeds as the division 
between the Krause and Fries farms. 

When this ancient mill was built and 
how long it continued to supply the earl_v 
settlers with the stall of lite, is very 
much a matter of conjecture. But that it 
was one of the earliest mills erected on 
the upper Neshaininy is beyond a doubt 
and it probably antedates the old Turk 
mill which was built about 1750. The 
Hough's though of two distinct families 
were pioneer millers in this vicinity. 
'John Hough, of another family, was one 
of the builders of the Carversville mill in 
1730, another John Hough was the owner 
and operator of the mill at Mechanics 
Valley as early as 1754, and John Hough, 
of the Warwick family, became the owner 
of the Turk Mills in 1797. 

The first authentic record we have of 
this ancient mill is in the year 17e8. 
when Robert Tompkins, petitions the 
Court of Quarter Sessions of Bucks 
county, setting forth that he had rented 
the 'M griat and sawmill of John Hough 
in Warwick and asks for ttie opening of n, 
road from the Bristol road at George 
Hair's meadow to the said mill. George 
Hairs' meadow was at the present village 
of TraUesville ant' the road laid out in 
pursuance of the petition above referred 
to probably followed the old line of the 
Hough tract str, ignt down to the Ne 
shaminv about three-eighths of a mile 
above the mill, where it interesected the 



present road from New Britain to the 
Almshouse. From the point where the 
almshou.'e road makes a detour to the 
right a private road still leads down to 
the old mill site. The first mile of the 
new road is the present State roati from 
Tradesville eastvmrd. The dam which 
supplied the water for the old mill proba- 
bly extended across the Xeshaminy hut a 
few yards above the mill, but very little 
trace of it can be discerned at this time, 
the frosts and floods of a century having 
well-nigh obliterated all trace of it. 

On January 20, 180'2, John Hough con- 
veyed to his son Thomas what purported 
to be "about 150 acres" of the 414 acres 
conveyed to him by his father in 1701. but 
which was really i84 acres and 9 perches as 
shown by later conveyances comprising 
the present Krause and Costello farms. 
The description in this deed beginning at 
the Wells road is as follows: "Thence by 
other land of sd John Hough an qlu 
southwest course to the middle of Ne- 
shaminy Creek, thence up the middle of 
the same the several courses thereof to the 

on<2 at t.be ^^^^. ?-j»!I fpoe of »hp nl :i luilJ, 

where it formerly emptied into said 
creek, thence up along the middle uf said 
tail race to the old mill seat. " cCc , &c. 
This clearly demonstrates that the "old 
mill" had become a thing of the past one 
hundred years ago and it protably was 
abandoned somewhere between 1788 and 
17yO when the present Reed mill a mile 
further up the Neshaminy was erected by 
Daviil Grove. 

These are what some may term the dry 
records concerning this ancient mill, but 
they supply the foundation for funcy to 
build anew the old structure and to re- 
people with folks long since dead its 
charming environment. The site is at 
the present time one of the picturesque 
spots in the county. The Neshaminy, 
winding down from Castle Valley, 
courses along a high, s| ruce clad bluff 
and no doubt on the loadway at the foot 
of the rocky hill there could have been 
seen in by-gone days the slow-moving 
ox cart or the old farm horse with the 
barefoot boy astride bearing home the bag 
of meal. There were no big towns at 
hand or railways to carry one to the 
distant cities in those days, ajid social 
conaitions were devoid of the tormality 
that makes this or that class to day. But 
now and then there would came among 
these early inhabitants of the county some 
[lerson di.sti i-'uished from the common 
folk whose evCentricities would long be 
remembered. Thus it was with Thomas 
Meredith said to be study-crazed who 
dreamed that he was- building a great 
CttsCl^ ove-rloakir^-iJC *-h" twj.t.iififiij valley 
that bears that name. The kind hearted 
people humored his fancy and conveyed 
logs from the mill to the castle site, that 
the old man might continue his child's 
play. This is only one incident of the 
many that could be reailled to lend addi- 
tional charm to the story of this long for- 
gotten mill. 

THEANTIQCJARY. 



Miirj- I^wlii Hnd Rebecca, wife of Hiiirh 
SuMihenttin Siirah. the neconil (laiif^hbT 
of Daniel nnil MiirKor^l CrilK- fn-nis to 
hiive Kfi-tit 'it least Ik pr>rtl<>D of her iflrl- 
h'Rxl (liiVH with her unrle iind aunt John 
uml M irimivt (iniv. as eviilenre*! hv thi- 
will wf the firiM-r In IT4», Whether r.he 
"in:irrie«l with the ei)n~-nt of her ptn-nts 
anil her Aunt Mirpun-t" |8 not iliiielo«-<l. 
She (11,1 iiMrry, however, nlioiit 17.%;!, 
Jiiliii Hnrnhill. of New Urllitln township, 
a wm t>f KoU-rt Htirnhill. a Seotvh Irish 
Itninitmnt who was n resident of New 
Hrit.iin lus early as 173M. and probably a 
decade earlier. 

As I{<>hert Unrnhill was one of the pi-Il- 
Uoni-rs for the hiving out of the Ferry 
Ko.ul, ( the pres«'nt line between Doyles- 
town ami .New Rrliain townships i In 
lT:i^. he W.18 prohjihly the holder under 
leas.' of the ai'.' acr»-s he purchnio-d six 
years later of John KIrkbrlde. This tract 
Jay to rit'ht of the New (jiilenn, e.xtenil- 
lUkT from the Kerry lio^td to the New 
(iaiena K»ad Ijetwien the Wljit. in and 
St.-wiiri tracts, the latter belntf the pn-s- 
enr Arthur Chapman farm KoU-rt and 
t'aarh Mnilitiiil (Sinve.i Ife to it.uir soi., 
Jolwi Hirnhlll. NoveniliiT 11, ITtll In the 
yi-ar IT.'si John Bjirnhill piirchaM-vl HHS 
a'T»*s in Warwick Ivlnjf on both sUles of 
the Vnrk r<>.'id comprising.' all thai part of 
the vlll.itre of Jamison lyinir east of the 
A nishouse ro;ul and extt-ndlne enslward 
to a iiotnt near the prt-sent residence of 
I'.itruk Hre»n li was |>art of the iireat 
K'niiii.'tn triet of Itf-J,") aiTe-i. In the year 
KtS' .lames Itaii-lltfe was (rninied a Ik-t-nst- 
to k> ep a tavern on the York Hoad within 
the Imunds of this tract, presumably at 
the iir-hent site of the Jamison Hotel, 
and (he years later David l..inds<-y who 
was a tenant of Itodman |ii-lltloned for 
and was ^rante<l a lUvns** to keep the 
•■ Pulillc House of Kntertainment hitely 
kept bv James llatclltle. the same havlnit 
b'en liivns.'d everslnce It was built." At 
thi- March sessions, 177.5. the petition of 
John Itarnhill sets forth thai h<' "has 
|)unhas.i| the house where David I.lml- 
s<'\ llveth and that the said Hous<- hath 
be*-n kept In the use of a Tavern" aiul 
a.-k- that he In- reooiumendwl t<> the Gov- 
ernor for a llo-nse. His petition wn« 
itraiiled and he continued to keep the 
luvern until I7i>l, when he sold lln' pn«p- 



eriy to Isvac Hutchinson and removed to 
Phllmlelphia. when; he continued to be 
known as an "Innkeeper" as late a^ 17i»7. 
On July 'ii. I7ii;. he puchased of Benja- 
min Davis two brick nouses i^n the south 
side of Kim stnvt. between Se<-ond and 
Third sreets. which we Rupi»se to bi" thv 
site of hlg. inn. In I'lft he purchased a 
tract of N.*! acres in Oxford township, on 
the bunks of thi- Delaware. By 177l' he 
had l»-coine a merchant and purchaHMl in 
that ye..rthe site of iJ North Third street, 
wher»' he contlnue«l to ki-eii a store until 
his death in 17'.t7. His wlaow Sarah sur- 
vived him They had thix* cblldivn, 
liiiber*. the |tre«t-(rrnuilfail>er of l>r»*l- 
dent RiK)!»-velt, born In New Britain 
township In I7.'>1, Mar(tar.t. who married 
llrst a Henry and st-cond a Burpess, and 
.''arah, wife' of Henry Toland. Robert 
Barnhlll married Maruiin't Putlai, dauph- 
•••r of John Potl8, of (jeniiantown. and 
like his father enffa(ie«l in the mercantile 
business. In ITld he w.'is lo<-jil.-d at iC 
North Thlrtl street, but at his f.ither's 
death, in 1?.'7, purch(is«l the stoiv formerly 
iK-cupi«l by the fath.T He dle»l in l^l^. 
His daughter Alnrfturei, lOumea Cornelius 
Viin .'"chalch Uoosevelt, Krandfutber of 
the President 

There were lu.tny other members of the 
Scot<'h- Irish colony on the Nesjijuiiiny 
quite as worthy of mention as tlios«- refer 
red to in this brief article, si>nie of whom 
achieved distinction either here or in 
other jBirls of the country. .\ number of 
the sons of the Warwick seiilers were 
plontH-rs In the s>-ttlement of the "dark 
and bliKxlv ground," on the bunks of the 
Ohl.i 

Anions the lievolutionary hemes fniin 
the Neshamin.v settlement mit:ht be men- 
tioned t'ol. William Ba.Mer, whoik- hemic 
death has Uen n f. rtN-<l to In this sketch. 
and ("apt. Henry Danish, of Warrlnnnn. 
Col Halter was an Innkivpr In Warwick 

firior to the breaking out of the war and 
Ived where Nelson Di'Cour.-<*y now lives 
at I he tirldjfi' over the Neshuminy at 
Brldtje Valley 

The Anili|unrT may In the future (rive 
the readers of The li<'i»ibli«in an ac«'ount 
of st>mi' of these worthy jieople and the 
plaivs of their abode. 

THE ANTIQUARY 



A Long Forgotten Mill. 

An Ancient Structure that Stood on the Bank of the Ne- 

shaminy. In Warwick Township. M<»re than 

a Century and a Half A$o. 



Some wwks a^o the attention of the 
writer was arnst.d by a n-ference in a 
ilea'd t4i an old mill on the Neshaminy In 
Warwick townshl|i. the exlstj'in-"' of 
which no one niw llvinit remeiiiliers. 
Till- lis-al ami<|Uary Is always lnt<n*sted 
In iin-s<-rvin(r the rx-conls of the juisi 
while somee\ldcniv yet ninalns to v<-rlfy 
them, anil he at onii* U'k'an an Invi^stlini* 
tlon asio thi- lia-aiion of the ancient tuVll. 
.\fter n careful examinjillon of the 
r^siinls 'inil twti or thn-e trljts of 
■■xjilonitlon along Ihe banks of the his- 
toric stream the followInK facts were de- 
tluced ; 

I liie of Ihe enrliest tracts surveytyj 
under warmniii from William IViiti near 



the preM-ut site of Doyleslown was a 
tnict of alxiut S'lli acres imtented to Joxeph 
Clowes It lies on Ujlh sides of the Ne- 
shaminy a short disl.'ino* alnjve the pres- 
ent vlllat-i* of K<ll><>n where the old 
Dyer's mill mad, now the Doylestown 
and Willow llnive turnpike, ernsws the 
Neshaminy. It extended from the Bristol 
n>nd to the W.-lls riuid, and was boiiniled 
on the southi'.'isT bv f h'- Bo<lm."in frr ft. 
then .Uihn iini> 
alms hoiiM- Ire ' 
by the land of tl ^ 

lat«'r James Menoilli and «iii>rt.- Uair. 
This tract wasinnveyi^d hv Jo(» |ili Clowes 
lo his Ron Inhiw, Richard Hough In the 
year littj and the entire tract n-tualnvd 



